Forestry industry

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees.

'The perfect accompaniment to a year of forest walks'Gardens Illustrated 'Books of the Year'A seductive mix of science, history and culture'Tracy Chevalier'I love this book'Lauren Laverne, as featured on BBC Radio 6 MusicA wondrous seasonal journey through Britain and Ireland's trees.

This book explains the financial appraisal of capital budgeting projects.

From the interactive clockwork world of geology, tides, Northwest weather, and snow, to the hidden roles of dirt, stream life, and mosses and lichens, Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Dietrich explores the natural splendors of the Pacific Northwest.

The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior.

A guide to making good decisions about wildlife management and biodiversity conservation against a backdrop of socio-environmental change.

Poplars and willows form an important component of forestry and agricultural systems, providing a wide range of wood and non-wood products.

The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions.

Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History

This book is a guide for the identification of the indigenous forest trees of Uganda.

Comprehensive exploration of how land use interacts with the atmosphere and carbon cycle, for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents and travelers alike.

George Perkins Marsh (18011882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms.

For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City.

Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved.

In 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops naturally.

Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South's major industries.

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides.

Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South's major industries.

All students, practitioners and researchers in forestry and related disciplines need a good grounding in statistics and probability.

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions.

George Perkins Marsh (18011882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms.

Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, ContemporaryMention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail.

From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation's territory.

Comprehensive exploration of how land use interacts with the atmosphere and carbon cycle, for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

In the years following World War II, the worlds biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho.

This book is a guide for the identification of the indigenous forest trees of Uganda.

Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved.

This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive.

The Dipterocarp forests of South-East Asia constitute a dominant component of the world's tropical forests.

In Law by Night Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller asks what we can learn about modern law and its authority by understanding how it operates in the dark of night.

Australia’s experience in community-based environmental repair is unique in the world, with no shortage of analysis by bureaucrats, academics and environmentalists.

In this book, an ornithologist and a forester have combined their skills to try and tease out the real facts behind the various arguments on forestry.

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers.

Because of the long-standing Canada-U.

"e;In this groundbreaking anthology, the author offers new hope for those who love trees and forests.

The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions.

Established in 1905, The Forest Service is steeped in history, conflict, strong personalities (including Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot), and the challenges of managing 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands.

This is a rich and many-faceted personal and business biography of the main figure in the third generation of Weyerhaeusers, who led the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company through the difficult and decisive years from 1933 to 1956.

The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism.

This fully updated second edition presents a conceptual framework of outdoor recreation management in the form of a series of management matrices.

Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "e;composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist.

Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region s woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity.

Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries.

Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K.

This book aims at both academics and professionals in the field of forest-people interfaces.

Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, ContemporaryMention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail.

This is a rich and many-faceted personal and business biography of the main figure in the third generation of Weyerhaeusers, who led the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company through the difficult and decisive years from 1933 to 1956.